Ridley Park High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Ridley Park, PA)

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I .canna Kay Hoffman, Editor, and Mrs. Gladys Rogers, Adviser. FOREWORD We have tried to place within this book the events of an entire year. By now, we hope you have read this hook from cover to cover and have found our old- fashioned theme very delightful. Teachers, administrators, secretaries, and the student body have helped us in our production of this hook. A very important member of our Retrospect family, our adviser. Mrs. Gladys Rogers, had to leave before the close of our school year. We thank her for her guidance and wish her God’s blessing in her new community. This book is for you to pick up in the years to come and to help you remember 1960 at Ridley Park High School. The Retrospect Staff of 1960 Six

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OUR PRINCIPALS One of the current television celebrities devotes a part of the time of his program to what he calls “That Wonderful Year.” Song hits and happenings of historical interest of a given year become an interesting, amusing, and often informative part of his show. You who graduate in 1960 may find that your year of graduation is a Wonderful Year. Whether or not 1960 turns out to lx? wonderful, it will, in a sense, be unusual. It is a “zero” year, a year that marks the beginning of a decade. In the past, decades have been named to describe their character and to designate the kind of years they contained. Reference is often made to the Roaring Twenties when people rushed madly to the “bust” of 1929. The Thirties followed with their panic, despair, and financial chaos. The Forties were important years for the members of your class. It was in this decade that you were born. The Forties were war years with air raid drills, civil defense, feverish war preparation, . . . fighting. These were the Feverish, Feuding Forties. The Fifties brought you to school with all its pleasures and its problems, its opportunities and its responsibilities. Did you handle them well? If you did you may enter the Sixties with a degree of confidence and jHiise. The decade that lies ahead will challenge all who are privileged to live it through. Many problems await solution in spite of. probably because of the rapid scientific and technological advances of our times. We shoot for the moon hut fail to live peaceably with our fellowmen on earth. In the midst of abundance people go hungry and surpluses waste. Ethical teachings are insistent yet jx-ople continue to sell their honor and reputation for questionable gain. “Payola and “Fixed Quiz” become ugly terms of our times. These are sad commentaries on these recent years. May the Sixties be better. Let us hope they may be the Serious Sixties ... a period when each by thoughtful and serious effort may strive to make his world a lx-tter one. Only bv this way of life can the greatest inner satisfaction and jxrsonal happiness lx1 attained. Only this pattern of conduct will enable this class to reunite in 1970 for the traditional tenth year reunion with assurance that the 60’s will have lie Sensible. Mr. J. Layton Moore. . . School Principal.